Chords for Country Joe & The Fish - Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - 1967 45rpm

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_ _ [D] _ [A] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
_ _ [C#] _ [B] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ [E] She hides [A] in an [E] attic concealed on a shelf
_ _ _ [A] _
[Em] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] Behind volumes [A] of [E] literature based on [A] herself
[E] _ _ _ [A] _
[E] _ _ [Em] _ [A] [E] And runs across the pages like some tiny [A] elf
_ [E] Knowing that it's hard to find
[A] Stuff way back in her mind
[B] Wines are blending all of the time
[F#m] Trying to memorize _ every line
[E] Sweet Lorraine, _ _ _ _ sweet Lorraine
[A] _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] Sweet lady of death want me to [A] die
[E] _ _ _ [A] _
[E] So _ _ she can come [A] sit by [E] my bedside and sigh
_ Wipe [A] _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ away the [A] tears [E] from all my frowns [A] eyes
[E] _ Then softly she will [B] explain just [A] exactly _
Who was to blame [B] for causing me to go insane
[A] And finally blow out my [D] brain
[E] Sweet Lorraine, [A] _
[E] _ _ [A] sweet [E] Lorraine _
Well _ _ [A] _ [Em] you know [E] that it's a [Em] shame in the city [D] you were raised
[F] _ [Gm] _
[D] [G] Up in [D] the [G] city have [E] you ever
[Em] _
[D] Learned nothing about country [E] ways
[A] _ _
[E] All [A] about [E] country ways _
The _ _ _ joy of life she dresses in black
_ _ _ [A] _ [E] _
_ _ [A] _ [E] With celestial [D] secrets [E] engraved in her back
_ And _
_ _ [A] _ [E] her face keeps flashing that she's gone [A] mad
But [E] you know when you look into her [B] eyes
[A] All she's learned she's had to memorize
And the [G#m] only way you'll ever get her high
[D#] Is to [A] let her do her thing and then watch you die
Sweet [E] Lorraine, [A] _ [D] _
[E] _ [A] ah sweet [E] Lorraine
[A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] [E] Now she's the one who gives us all those magical things
She _ _ _ [A] _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ [E] reads us [A] stories [E] out of the e.g.
[C#m] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _
[E] _ _ _ [A] [E] Then she passes out [A] a whole [E] new basket of [A] rings
_ [E] _ That when you put on your hand
[F#m] Makes you one of the [A] angel band
And [G#m] gives you the power to be a [C#] [B] man
[A] But what it does for her you never quite [D] understand
[E] Sweet Lorraine, _ _ _ ah sweet Lorraine _
[A] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] [E] Well you know [G] _
[E] that it's a shame [Em] in the city [D] you were raised
[Dm] _
_ Up in the city [E] have you ever
[G] _
[D] Learned nothing about [E] country ways _
All about [Em] _ country ways _
[E] All about country [Em] ways _
[E] Yeah all [A] about [D] country [E] ways
[A] _
[Em] Yeah _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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